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Cordylanthus pringlei

Pringle's bird's-beak
Stems

erect or ascending, 30–120(–150) cm, glabrous or puberulent.
Leaves

puberulent or glabrous;

proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide;

distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire.
Inflorescences

capitate spikes, 2–4-flowered, 15–20 mm;

bracts 1–3, flabelliform, 5–8 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes green, narrowly ovate.
Pedicels

bracteoles 8–10 mm, margins entire.
Flowers

calyx 8–10 mm, tube 0 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 0.5–1 mm;

corolla pale yellow to yellow with purple markings, 8–9 mm, throat 4 mm diam., adaxial lip 3–4 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial;

stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, unequal.
Capsules

oblong-ovoid, 5–8 mm.
Seeds

4–6, dark brown, ovoid to narrowly reniform, 2.5–3 mm, striate.
2n

= 28.

Cordylanthus pringlei
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Dry openings in chaparral and mixed-evergreen forests.
Elevation 300–1900 m. (1000–6200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Cordylanthus pringlei grows in the Coast Range of California. The species is distinctive because of its flabelliform inflorescence bracts and relatively short corollas.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 674.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus
Sibling taxa
C. capitatus, C. eremicus, C. kingii, C. laxiflorus, C. nevinii, C. nidularius, C. parviflorus, C. pilosus, C. ramosus, C. rigidus, C. tenuis, C. wrightii
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 94. (1883)
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